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o'rrs A. Masern or New YORK, n. Y.

GLASS STRUCTURE.

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Specication of Letters Patent. V -Patentedtct 115,191?.

Application illed May 13, 1907, Serial No. 373,330. Renewed February 5, 1912. Serial No. 675,645?.

T o all whom 'it mayoo'ncern:

riety of uses all of which cannot, obviously,`

be set forth in this specification. As illustrat-ive of some of its uses, however, may be mentioned glassware, table ware, decorative ware, jars, and the like. It should be clearly understood that the .invention relates broadly to any kind of glassware used in the l, industrial .rts,

the fine arts, or the decorative arts.

. The new glass structure consists of a body of transparent glass having upon one side a stratum of color and, upon the op osite side, lens-like conformations. The lig t effect upon such a glass structure as viewed through the lens-llke side are entirely new in the art. When the color-stratum is substantially white, soft satin-like eects are produced. By changing the arrangement of the lens formations watered-silk designs are formed. When the stratum is a combination color-scheme the effect as viewed 'through .the lens-like side is artistically beautiful; some of these effects being, for instance, like mother-ofearl.

As the color-scheme o the color-stratum side may be indefinitely varied, so also may be the beautiful effects produced through the lens-like formations on the other side of the transparent body, be varied.

One or two forms of my structure, sutiicient to illustrate my invention, will be here set forth.

Figure 1 representsv a section through a vportionof glass structure showing a transparent body 1, having a stratum of color 2 on one'side and a lens-like surface 3 formed by giving the surface a compound curve.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the, lenslike side formed of a series of convex thickness havin curves. Fig. Sprepresents still another View in which the lens-like side 3 is fashioned in a series lof lenticular protuberances. Fig. 4 is another modified form.

Many other s ecilc forms of lens-like conformations cou d be obviously illustrated,

but the above examples will doubtless be considered suiiicient to illustrate the inven' tion.

The. color-stratum side of the glass structure may be straight, curved, zig-zag, or otherwise irregularly disposed. The color` stratum is preferably a aint or enamel.

Among thefinest artistic and decorative effects ever obtainedtin glass structure are successfully produced by my invention.

.Fig 4 shows the lens-like side irregularly formed, and the body of the glass varying in thickness.

Light rays passing through the lens-like formations or lenticulaf are magnified and focused in part in varying ways against the color-stratum and reflected back throu h the lens-like surface. Viewed from di erent positionsa particular glass structure corre` spondingly varies in aspect and design.

In these glass structures the varying thickness of the glass, in connection with the lens-like surfaces, modifies the vmagnifying, focusing and'reflecting eects in more or less-degree in the production of the decorative designs. r

Ihis glass. structure may be given various shapes,vsuch as polygonal, or annular, and the surface'may be plane or curved, dished, pyramidal, conlcal,l or the like.

I claim: 'l i .1. A transparent glass body having a lens-like curved surface on one side and upon lthe opposite vsurface a colored backing integral therewith.

2. A transparent glass body varying in a lens-like curved surface on one side an upon the opposite side a colored vbacking integal therewith.

TIS A. MYGATT.

Witnesses:

ROBERT KnLLY, Jr., C. L. MA'r'rHEws. 

